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When I was a kid, my one of my aunts lived in an actual haunted house. I’d bring my clown doll with me whenever I visited so the ghosts would leave me alone, especially the downright evil thing in her basement. Suffice to say, that stayed with me and I did not grow to love ghosts stories like other Horror fans seem to. So I was pleasantly surprised to discover how much I enjoyed Sanctum by Madeleine Roux.

Horror is a genre of emotion. Its readers go into a novel or a short story looking for something that makes turning out the lights scary. That gives them nightmares which keep them awake for days. And the way a writer does this is not by slapping some blood and guts into a story—gore isn’t scary by itself, its gross. But by, if they use gore, making it count.

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For the last four years, like many people all over the world, I have given up my November to NaNoWriMo. National Novel Writing Month or NaNoWriMo for short is a month-long challenge where people try to write a 50,000-word short novel in 30 days. It’s ridiculously hard and stressful, but I love it. So this year, of course, I am going to be doing NaNoWriMo 2017. Even if I am starting off way late.

When I was a kid, my one of my aunts lived in an actual haunted house. I’d bring my clown doll with me whenever I visited so the ghosts would leave me alone, especially the downright evil thing in her basement. Suffice to say, that stayed with me and I did not grow to love ghosts stories like other Horror fans seem to. So I was pleasantly surprised to discover how much I enjoyed Sanctum by Madeleine Roux.

Horror is a genre of emotion. Its readers go into a novel or a short story looking for something that makes turning out the lights scary. That gives them nightmares which keep them awake for days. And the way a writer does this is not by slapping some blood and guts into a story—gore isn’t scary by itself, its gross. But by, if they use gore, making it count.

You probably read the title of this post and did a double take. Maybe you thought, productivity in Fantasyville? Why is she trying to mix productivity and writing Fantasy? Those topics don’t go together.

I’m a creature who loves to feel like I’m making steady progress on my various projects. As such, it hits me very hard when I have writer’s block. Glaring at the page, huffy, nothing is right with the world hard.

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